Bibliograph

A climate of crisis, America in the age of environmentalism, Patrick Allitt

Type

Label

A climate of crisis, America in the age of environmentalism, Patrick Allitt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-371) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A climate of crisis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

852221839

Responsibility statement

Patrick Allitt

Series statement

Penguin history of American life

Sub title

America in the age of environmentalism

Summary

"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts."--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

The schizophrenic fifties -- Pollution and pessimism -- Politics and the environment -- Energy politics -- Crises and critics -- Anti- and counterenvironmentalists -- Ecologists and historians -- Deep and radical ecology -- Global warming -- Environmental issues of the 1990s -- The new millennium

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